Title Theron, Paulinus, and Aspasio. Or, Letters & Dialogues upon the Nature of Love to God, Faith in Christ, Assurance of a Title to Eternal Life, Containing some Remarks on the Sentiments of the Reverend Messieurs Hervey and Marshal, on these subjects.

Binding Leather

Type Book

Size 12mo, 11.2 x 18.2 x 2.5cm(binding), 10.4 x 7.6 x

Highlights 1798

Location Published Washington, PA

Inscription The front flyleaf contains birth records of Cathe

Book Number 17928

Joseph Bellamy on ...The Nature of Love to God, Faith in Christ, Assurance of a Title to Eternal Life." Bound with his Essay on the Nature and Glory of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Washington, [PA] 1798.

BELLAMY, JOSEPH. Theron, Paulinus, and Aspasio. Or, Letters & Dialogues upon the Nature of Love to God, Faith in Christ, Assurance of a Title to Eternal Life, Containing some Remarks on the Sentiments of the Reverend Messieurs Hervey and Marshal, on these subjects. [12 lines] Washington, Printed by John Colerick, and may be had of all the Store-keepers. 1798.Bound with: BELLAMY, JOSEPH. An Essay on the Nature and Glory of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. As Also on the Nature and Consequences of Spiritual Blindness, and the Nature and Effects of Divine Illumination. Designed as a Supplement to the Author's Letters and Dialogues, on the Nature of Love to God, Faith in Jesus Christ, and the assurance of a Title to Eternal Life. [6 lines] Washington [PA], Printed and Sold by John Colerick, at Office of the Telegraph. 1798. 12mo, 11.2 x 18.2 x 2.5cm(binding), 10.4 x 7.6 x 1.8cm(page block). $165.00

Joseph Bellamy (1719-1790) New England Congregational theologian. "A remarkably bright farmer's boy, he went to Yale, a few miles away, where he graduated in 1735 when he was but sixteen. After two years' study of theology, partly with Jonathan Edwards, whose ardent disciple he became, he was licensed to preach, though even yet only a few months over eighteen... He was full of enthusiasm for the Great Awakening, and for the new Light theology, inaugurated by Jonathan Edwards... Settling down at the close of the revival he began writing in defence of this new theology.... He was a striking example of bold independent thinking in early New England."--Theodore D. Bacon in Dict. Amer. Biography II:165

. We offer two of Bellamy's works first published in Boston in 1759. The first was written in response to James Hervey's Theron and Aspasio (Lond, 1753-55). The second as a supplement to the first. Hervey's work "advocates very strenuously the doctrine of the imputed righteousness of Christ" and evoked many replies and responses including John Wesley and others. We offer Bellamy's response.

Bound full leather with red morocco title label, rubbed some, corners rounded inward some but not worn through leather, two small worm holes through leather of rear cover, several worm tracks in both sets of endpapers and flyleaves, fore-edges of free endpapers and front flyleaf chipped back 1-2cm, inside edge of endpapers & flyleaves repaired with acid free archival paper & wheat paste, many dog-ears, medium to heavy foxing but lighter toward the end of the book.